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This volume provides an alternate history of health law by rewriting key judicial opinions from a feminist perspective. Each chapter includes a rewritten opinion penned by a leading scholar relying exclusively on court precedents and scientific understanding available at the time of the original decision accompanied by commentary from an expert placing the case in historical context and explaining how the feminist judgment might have shaped a different path for subsequent developments. It provides a map of the health law field-where paternalism, individualism, gender stereotypes, and tensions over the public-private divide shape decisions about informed consent, medical and nursing malpractice, the relationships among health care professionals and the institutions where they work, end-of-life care, reproductive health care, biomedical research, ownership of human tissues and cells, the influence of religious directives on health care standards, health care discrimination, long-term care, private health insurance, Medicaid coverage, the Affordable Care Act, and more.

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Seema Mohapatra, JD, MPH, is the M.D. Anderson Foundation Endowed Professor in Health Law and Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. Her research focuses on biosciences and the law, assisted reproduction and surrogacy, international family and health law, health equity, and informed consent. She is the coauthor of Reproductive Technologies and the Law (2021). Lindsay F. Wiley, JD, MPH, is Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law and Policy Program at UCLA School of Law. Her research focuses on public health law and ethics and access to health care. She is the coauthor of Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (2016) and Public Health Law and Ethics:A Reader (2018).

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